Subtest 3 - Science Part I

The image below shows what type of circuit?

• The batteries are on a series circuit, and the light bulbs are on a parallel circuit.

• The batteries are on a parallel circuit, and the light bulbs are on a parallel circuit.

• The batteries are on a series circuit, and the light bulbs are on a series circuit.

• The batteries are on a parallel circuit, and the light bulbs are on a series circuit.

This type of rock was originally liquid below Earth's crust and is formed by lava and magma

• sedimentary

• igneous

• metamorphic

• fossils

This type of rock is formed by heat pressure

• fossil

• sedimentary

• igneous

• metamorphic

A river flows through a canyon and picks up silt. That sediment and silt runs downstream and deposits where the river ends. When that material gets to the beach, it sits there. Over millions of years, _________________________ form.

• fossils

• sedimentary rocks

• igneous rocks

• metamorphic rocks

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Mr. Lopez is teaching a unit on seasons. He explains why summer days are longer and winter days are shorter. What should Mr. Lopez emphasize regarding the Earth when explaining this phenomenon?

• revolution around the sun

• tilt on its axis

• position in the solar system

• distance away from the sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The sun appears bigger than other stars because of

• the size of the sun

• the size of the solar system

• the distance Earth is from the sun

• the distance the sun is from Mars

The __________ affects the ocean tides.

• moon

• sun

• stars

• solar system

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What keeps the Earth from falling into the sun?

• There is a fairly constant gravitational force between the sun and the Earth keeping, the Earth in its orbit

• Kepler's law and Newton's laws

• The Earth is not moving fast enough to "escape" the sun's gravity and leave the solar system, but it is going too fast to be pulled into the sun

• all of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The best way for a student to understand the reproductive organs of a flower is to

• Read about it in the textbook

• Look at a diagram of a flower

• Dissect a flower and examine its reproductive organs

• Draw a flower and label its reproductive organs

The diagram below shows

• natural selection

• common ancestry

• evolution

• classification

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2